Do You Think H1N1 Is a National Emergency? (Fox News viewers vote...and comment)

[underpants]

YOU DECIDE

Thank you for voting!
Yes, we should prepare for the outbreak to get much worse 8% (2,351 votes)
Yes, though the outlook isn't as dire as it sounds 7% (1,867 votes)
No, but I'm still concerned about the flu's spread 29% (8,006 votes)
No, the outbreak is little more than media hype 55% (15,432 votes)
I don't know 1% (409 votes)
Total Votes: 28,065

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/10/24/decide-hn-emergency/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r1:c0.123868:b28504253:z0


mcbrat52

Michigan

I honestly believe the H1N1 is nothing more than financial propaganda.


keepmyfreedom

Connecticut

Its just another communist plot trying to mass inocculate, then it will be the mandatory identification chip. Wake up america, there is no pandemic nor will there be, its less of a flu strain than last years! Its about money and and goverment control!


dilhop

Colombia

The only National Emergency is what the democrats are trying to do to this country ..


tmp21849

Washington

I agree with ZMAN61. I've been expecting the administration to cook up some sort of national emergency as an excuse to declare martial. I fear we may have seen our last free election.


earlyhaze

Delaware

OBAMA NEEDS A DISTRACTION LIKE bUSH USE TO DO TO TAKE THE FOCUS OFF OF HIS SELF. i HEARD THE THE REGULAR FLU KILLS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EVERY YER, MANY MORE THAN THE SWINE FLU. tHE MEDIA IS ONE OF THE WORST PROBLEMS IN THIS COUNTRY NOT THE FLU!!!


axterra

Virginia

lock and load everyone, lock and load. Its about time this country had a revolution. Our government has been out of control since the Facist Lincoln was in office.

[Chemisse]

1. This gem is my favorite

OBAMA NEEDS A DISTRACTION LIKE bUSH USE TO DO TO TAKE THE FOCUS OFF OF HIS SELF. i HEARD THE THE REGULAR FLU KILLS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EVERY YER, MANY MORE THAN THE SWINE FLU. tHE MEDIA IS ONE OF THE WORST PROBLEMS IN THIS COUNTRY NOT THE FLU!!!


Why not just include "I M N IDEUT!" ?

[bamacrat]

16. Their last sentence that apparently begins with a wisper then shouting is correct.

Bush needed a distraction because he was doing wrong shit not what is needed. These tools worry me I feel another McVeigh coming on.

[madrchsod]

2. it`s hitting the kids around here...

my wifes employer is required to provide pig flu shoots but they have`t yet.

[underpants]

6. We had a case in our daycare

Baltimore schools (told from a friend who's mother works in them) is over the 30% threshold but is not closing schools

[Robb]

3. What do they call it when the environment changes faster

...than the animal can keep up, evolution-wise? :D

[Peregrine]

4. Just substitute Big Pharma

instead of gov't, Obama, communists and you have DU.

[brewens]

5. It could be a real tragedy if all the wing-nuts...

refused vaccination because of conspiracy theories. If it did turn out to be a pandemic and everyone else was immune, then it mutated into a more deadly virus, millions of.... Oh, never mind.

[underpants]

7. I suggest that they take the family out...

and lick some grocery carts

[madokie]

8. Here you go

Thank you for voting!
Yes, we should prepare for the outbreak to get much worse 8% (2,468 votes)

Yes, though the outlook isn't as dire as it sounds 7% (1,970 votes)

No, but I'm still concerned about the flu's spread 29% (8,406 votes)

No, the outbreak is little more than media hype 55% (16,131 votes)

I don't know 1% (429 votes)

Total Votes: 29,404

[G_j]

9. that "Facist Lincoln"

started it all..

:think: :rofl:

[underpants]

10. stupid fascist all fighting slavery and saving a nation

:grr:

[tulsakatz]

14. Lincoln was a fascist?

this is the first time I've heard that.

[G_j]

17. that because the history books are written by libruls

and colored people.

[bigwillq]

11. Done

Yes, we should prepare for the outbreak to get much worse 8% (2,537 votes)

Yes, though the outlook isn't as dire as it sounds 7% (2,027 votes)

No, but I'm still concerned about the flu's spread 29% (8,630 votes) (MY VOTE)

No, the outbreak is little more than media hype 55% (16,559 votes)

I don't know 1% (445 votes)

Total Votes: 30,198

[Dogmudgeon]

12. We're "hipping ourselves to death"

We've become so worldly-wise and cynical that we'll end up dying because we are SURE that the whole world is a scam, an evil plot, and a money-making Ponzi scheme.

Fear of "getting took" is probably one of the strongest social phobias these days; it's in full bloom on the Internet. (It's quite well represented here at DU, too.) And nobody has even looked into how many people have died doing self-destructive things out of the desire to prove to the world "you can't fool me!"

--d!

[Anakin Skywalker]

13. "TAKE THE FOCUS OFF OF HIS SELF" Wow!

What brilliant minds our esteemed RW friends have!

[HughMoran]

15. So DU and Fox people agree on this topic

I've read similar posts here about the H1N1 outbreak - interesting, verrry interesting...

[Odin2005]

18. Loony woo woos are the same, regardless of political leanings

[Skittles]

19. Fox viewers are paranoid; they're fucking nuts

[underpants]

20. They, in my humble opinion,...

deserve an ass kicking

:bounce:

[Skittles]

23. they are not worth my fucking time

lord I despise willful ignorance in the land of the free

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. It is potentially an emergency

and the declaration is there like for hurricanes.

Don't expect most people to understand what this means... or why this is the right thing to do...

:banghead:

After all the conspiracy started in Mexico... RIGHT... I WAS THERE when it started... so try to sell that to somebody else.

Oh and I forgot, exactly who is the world health organization shilling for?

[justgamma]

22. Don't blame them for being cynical.

Remember how horrible the bird flu was? Day after day hype from the corporate media. Trouble is this is for real and kids are dying.

[underpants]

24. Actually it is closely related to THE bird flu

in that it was most likely carried from a bird to a pig

the idea that there was THE bird flu is a fine example of how toned down discussion of real issues is in this country (not elsewhere). IN 50 years 80% of the world population will acquire a disease from a bird if 2 or 3 steps removed.

[notesdev]

25. I'm in the "the sky is falling" camp

woe to us! We're doomed! Doomed, I tell you!

[REP]

26. It'd be so sweet if this is the group that caught the more serious form of the 'flu!

As long as they stayed inside and away from normal people, that is.